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Originally Posted by TadW
My suggestion: Install Virtualbox (free). Then install Ubuntu within a virtual machine. Now you can give Ubuntu a try without messing with your harddisk partitions. If you don't like what you see, you can easily erase the virtual machine and uninstall Virtualbox.  |
This one's a very sound idea to get a feel for an operating system. Heck, you can even create a virtual machine for different distros and go with the one you like best. One frustrating part of dual-booting is you'd have to reboot to switch operating systems. If you're a "Windows" power user like myself, you likely have an arsenal of software utilities which may or may not have a Linux port. One of the reasons I didn't stay with Linux is because I didn't have the luxury of having the time to find Linux equivalents for software that I use a lot. I had to switch to XP quite often to get things done quickly and after a few weeks of running XP, I eventually forgot the password I used for the Kubuntu installation (I liked KDE much better than Gnome
). If you just keep Linux in a virtual machine, it's much easier to switch OSes back and forth and it makes the transition more gradual.